[sdiy] IC socket reliability

[Louis van Dompselaar]

Op 21 jan. 2013, om 05:01 heeft Dave Brown <davebr at earthlink.net> het volgende geschreven:

> However, I have done some recent DIY repairs where
> machined pin sockets were used and they were just lousy.  They were loose
> and really poor quality and barely contacted the IC pins.

I got 8-pin sockets like that from Futurlec.  Completely useless.
If you turn the pcb upside down the ICs fall out...